Sticky Toffee Pudding Recipe
Sticky toffee pudding is not pudding, as most people understand pudding, it’s a cake. But the Brits call all desserts “pudding” and that’s where this cake originates. But a rose by another name as far as I’m concerned. This cake is deliciously fudgy and gooey, best served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. It’s rather a large recipe so it will feed a crowd, but this cake also keeps for a few days and is yummy for breakfast the next day after a couple of turns in the microwave.
Sticky Toffee Pudding Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups pitted dates (make sure they're pitted dates!)
- 1 ½ cups water
- ½ cup butter
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- 1 cup whipping cream
- ½ cup butter
- ½ tsp vanilla
- Generous pinch of sea salt
Instructions
- • Spray a 9" x 13" pan with cooking spray and line with parchment
- • Preheat oven to 350F
- • Combine the dates with the water in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil
- • Reduce heat and simmer gently about 10 minutes until most of liquid is evaporated or absorbed
- • Puree (I use a hand blender and puree the dates right in the pot)
- • Beat the butter in a stand mixer with 1 cup of the brown sugar until ight and creamy
- • Add the eggs to the butter mixture, one at a time unti blended
- • Stir the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in a bowl, and then stir into the butter mixture just until combined
- • Add the dates to the butter mixture and mix until just combined (I don't wait until the dates have cooled because I'm usually in a hurry to get the cake on the table, but you can wait if you want)
- • Bake in the centre of the oven for 35 to 40 minutes or until the top of the cake feels firm when gently pressed in centre
- • While the cake is baking, make the toffee sauce
- • Place cream, other cup of brown sugar, butter, vanilla and sea salt in a heavy saucepan and bring to a boil
- • Cook and stir 3 minutes or until mixture comes together (reduce heat slightly and watch closely because the mixture can boil over)
- • When cake is removed from the oven, prick the cake surface all over with a skewer and spoon over ½ of the toffee sauce
- • Serve warm with vanilla ice cream and the remaining sauce drizzled on top
While the cake is baking, listen to Bon Iver read my rant “Stating the Obvious”…